With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

Origin: The multiplication sign “×” (which is visually similar to the letter “x”) is pronounced “per” in Italian. This convention is not only used for the preposition but also used within words, e.g. “xké” (“perché”), ”“xò” (“però”).